BlokJ

Career

Collections

Blok, J.

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

career:

Resident of Benkoelen, S. Sumatra.

collections:

He sent living specimens of Rafflesia arnoldi to Hort. Bog. in 1854. The curator J.E. Teijsmann planted the ripe seeds by infecting the roots of the host plant, and succeeded in obtaining new plants which flowered after some years.

	Career Collections
	Blok, J.
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: Resident of Benkoelen, S. Sumatra.
	collections: He sent living specimens of Rafflesia arnoldi to Hort. Bog. in 1854. The curator J.E. Teijsmann planted the ripe seeds by infecting the roots of the host plant, and succeeded in obtaining new plants which flowered after some years.